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Forecasting the 2015 British general election: The 1992 debacle all over again?

Overview of attention for article published in Electoral Studies, March 2016
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (88th percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (57th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Forecasting the 2015 British general election: The 1992 debacle all over again?
Published in
Electoral Studies, March 2016
DOI 10.1016/j.electstud.2015.11.016
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 3%
Unknown 29 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 20%
Researcher 6 20%
Student > Bachelor 4 13%
Other 3 10%
Student > Master 2 7%
Other 3 10%
Unknown 6 20%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 17 57%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2 7%
Philosophy 1 3%
Arts and Humanities 1 3%
Computer Science 1 3%
Other 2 7%
Unknown 6 20%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 15. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 February 2020.
All research outputs
#2,633,409
of 28,812,439 outputs
Outputs from Electoral Studies
#376
of 1,599 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#37,181
of 318,144 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Electoral Studies
#12
of 28 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 28,812,439 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 90th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,599 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 19.6. This one has done well, scoring higher than 75% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 318,144 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 88% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 28 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 57% of its contemporaries.